OK, Buddy, Cough Up the Evidence

After a jewelry store clerk said Rudolf Nyari, 64, of Hurst, Texas, had stolen a diamond tennis bracelet, police in Dublin, Ohio, searched him and his car. They didn’t find it. “At first he denied he had the bracelet,” a police detective said. “But once we told him we had the X-ray, he chuckled and joked.” Officers had obtained a search warrant — of Nyari’s body. An X-ray showed he had swallowed the $17,000 bracelet, and it was still in his throat. “He drank several glasses of water and smoked cigarettes to build up enough phlegm to cough it up,” the detective said. “It took about an hour.” (AP) ...There you are, kids: the glamorous real life of a jewel thief.